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Coloring circle sharing colors of crayon. I’ve definitely needed to acquire a lock for green

If you consider how many people are passive "consumers" of news and large "accounts" are only interested in distribution, serious RSS clients would seem like the only workhorse we ever really needed

Fancy #atproto and #activitypub protocols are a sort of RSS++, much ado for not all *that* much gain

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

To echo the sentiments of G.K. Chesterton, fairy tales do not tell children that monsters exist — because they know that already. But rather more importantly, fairy tales tell them (and us) that the monster can be killed. And such stories must never ever go out of fashion.

A doodle titled “yeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a “werk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

Back at it again in the mines

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing.

These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted.

Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

Happy Monday everyone

“Roberson’s latest court fight comes after he twice came within days — and once within hours — of being executed as his attorneys pressed courts to reconsider the medical testimony used to convict him.”

She was sick & fragile, not shaken

Experts all agree

There was no murder, here

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Thanks, I’ll check it out! While we’re sharing, here’s what I’m working on in this space (it’s sort of what I’d like to see beyond email): its.whenthetimeca.me/p/for-server...

I appreciate this. I'm sorry if I've seemed argumentative. It's just that I'm passionate about this stuff too. I'm sure that ideologically we're very aligned. Even down to meeting humans' needs over technical solutions. Have a great day as well!

My imagination around this might be too limited. I can imagine a non-centralized way of doing it, but in the end, it would probably stop being SMTP entirely and shift to a functionally compatible alternative that just used email addresses more like a new DID type. Is this getting warmer?

I am *curious* though how you imagine overcoming what I described. I will happily agree that SMTP and all the band-aids since are nothing I'd really want to save. But surely you agree that what you're proposing would require mostly throwing all of that stuff away, right?

You're right. I'm open to curiosity. My defensiveness comes from watching harms happen right now at a completely bungled roll out of age verification laws that were legislative first without thinking through the tech or unintended consequences. I'll wait to hear more. 💖

I totally agree!

Phones are not a decentralized system. We actually map numbers to carriers and have a Local Number Portability database. You can’t legislate solutions without a technical path to accomplish them. It’s not about email admins. SPF etc rely on domains in a way this fundamentally breaks.

But that’s how it works with the phone numbers. Do you know how email works? Do you have a non-centralized way of accomplishing this? Do you have any idea what havoc it wreaks with the way email works now?

Literally all of the standards that you listed would not make sense anymore with what you’re proposing. It would break the chain of integrity those standards build together. You’re basically imagining as though emails work like phone numbers in the first place, but it’s materially quite different

I mean these are all band aids for the myriad fundamental problems with email. But what you’re proposing is dramatically more invasive than any of these. These patches were all added to maintain decentralization while adding more integrity. This would throw that decentralization away to centralize

Maybe the thing we all depend on for identity and communication should be more self-sovereign than email. I would rather put energy behind that than remake a new world order that ignores DNS for an alternative… what?centralized email database controlled by whom?

Right, but in this case, doing what you propose would require buy in from every mail server in the world, something a lot harder to legislate or enforce like phone numbers. I find it easier to believe that we can actually move on from email to something better as challenging as that itself is.

If you can legislate an email address to be separate server from the rest of the domain, can you do the same with an individual url with HTTP? How much does SMTP have to change to accommodate? Is there some separate registration?

Well I mean, if you *were* to accomplish it, there would be ripples through the internet about the integrity of a domain. What would it mean to imply that an IP address and the actual process of sending an email would circumvent basic DNS principles? Would this apply to web requests too?

I’m here for this in spirit, but I’m feeling pretty stuck on the whole way that email actually works part of it. Maybe I’m missing something.

Stop making Pam Bondi look cool

I saw all that to say, all tech will eventually become popular.

Running platforms is not cheap.

Build tech to make it easy for people to migrate platforms when one becomes problematic.

Build adult content friendly cloud storage (NONE OF IT IS.)

Maybe their just hoping a billionaire will notice them and reward them. Like proving yourself to a capo

Morning.

Are you aware of the electoral college or brutal gerrymandering in the US? Rounding up these numbers is like the RIAA acting like every pirated song would have otherwise been a purchase.